Australia Contient Box
A read asked me to share my Australia and South America continent boxes. I was shocked (and a little ashamed) that I hadn’t gotten them up! Opps! So it is time to remedy that. Like all of my continent boxes I made all of the cards in this one too, and though I would love for them to be 3part cards, I couldn’t afford to do it. So there are basically pictures of the continent. Our Australia box is a little shy of cool cultural treasures as I don’t know anyone who has ever been there. (if anyone has an ideas of where to get some goodies for this let me know!) So here we go:
This box includes:
~ Pictures of Australian People
~ Pictures of Australian Food
~ Pictures of Australian Musical Instruments
~ Pictures of Australian Places
~ Pictures of Australian Birds
~ Pictures of Australian Animals
~Kangaroo, Dingo, Duck Billed platypus, wolverine, etc Figures
(from the Safari LTD Down Under Toob
)
)~Coral Reef animals from the Safari LTD Coral Reef Toob
~ Rag doll made in the Philippines
~ Hand Woven bracelet
~ Some Gem Stones from Australia
So there you have it! This is our small collection of Australia treasures! We have not yet studied Australia this year, so we will see what the girls think is cool when we get here! I think that they will at least be interested in it because of the wallabies we had at our zoo during the summer! So what do you use to inspire geographic learning? Do you have something you would add to this box? (Please help me find new ideas!) Happy Schooling!
February 1, 2014 @ 1:59 am
Hi! I have just found your excellent blog while looking for ideas for our own continent boxes, well done and thank you for sharing! We live in Australia and would love to contibute some little bits and pieces. Just let me know your postal address and we will start getting some things together. Happy learning! Tanya
February 4, 2014 @ 2:15 am
Sounds great to me! I will email you! So excited!!!!!!
February 7, 2014 @ 8:51 pm
I was wondering if you received the additions to this box from the previous commentor as I would also like to help you with this box. I am a teacher in Melbourne Australia and love this idea. I would like to make a few corrections to the contents of the box if you wouldn’t mind.
1. The wolverine is actually a Tasmanian Devil.
2. The doll from the Philippines does not depict out native aboriginals.
3. Our native aboriginals do not make crafts like beaded bracelets. They don’t make crafts.
Thanks for the awesome idea for my school. Please forward your postal address if you would like assistance adding and updating this box.
Regards,
Kelly
February 8, 2014 @ 2:57 am
Hi Kelly! glad you stopped by! glad to have the corrections. I try to do the research, but sometimes I don’t get it quite right! 🙂 The doll was given to me by my Uncle when he visited San Lucia. I thought that it was technically a part of the continent of Australia, but maybe it is South America or Asia? Hmmmm….I will have to look for that!. The bracelet is hand woven from women in the Philippians. I got it from a fund raiser for the area. That is supposed to be in my Asia box! Oops! I think it may have been moved! Thanks so much for your help! I will contact you about add some things! We would love to have them! Plus I can share them with our local homeschool group when we study Australia!
April 12, 2016 @ 11:52 am
Hi,
Great ideas for the box. I too live in Australia and I read the above comments and yes please do make those corrections, especially the wolverine and the doll. You do find these days the indigenous will wear beaded/woven bracelts in their flag colours to associate with their heritage but this is not traditional.
Some objects you can include could be the Australian, aboriginal and Torres Straight flags. Look up Australian indigenous dot paintings. A great activity is to make the paint with ochre and create your own.
The indigenous also weaved baskets, I remember at school doing this activty.
I am also very intrigued as to what food you have distinguished as Australian. As being such a young country that is heavily migrant based our food is very multicultural. Aside from kangaroo meat which is readily available at the supermarket.
Also don’t forget with animals you can include a wombat and crocodile. And if you can find a northern cassowary, they are a beautiful large bird and only found in a small strip of rainforest along the north east coast.